As allegations against Gov. Andrew Cuomo put a new spotlight on sexual misconduct in New York’s capital, numerous women there described an enduring predatory and misogynistic environment.

The immediate backlash to Dr. Biden's outfit echoes past critiques, especially from conservatives, about what type of clothing is "appropriate" for the first lady of the United States. It's an exercise that often speaks to a certain societal discomfort with reconciling cultural understandings of what femininity and power look like, and has since extended to criticism of how other women politicians dress.

In writing a new biography, Lyndsy Spence was given access to Callas’s previously unpublished correspondence and other material, which casts light on the torment of her marriage, the abuse to which Onassis subjected her and sexual harassment by the director of one of the world’s foremost conservatories.

Gulf state’s male guardian rules deny women right to wed, travel, work or to make decisions about their children, report says.

"Women ask if I need help and offer an arm to direct me, men have taken the opposite arm and groped me." Official statistics in the UK from 2018 show disabled women were almost twice as likely to have experienced any sexual assault than non-disabled women.

Activists have accused Prime Minister Imran Khan of “baffling ignorance” and victim-blaming after he said rape cases had risen because of “vulgarity.”